<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>jQuery Table</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-family: sans-serif;
}
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
margin-bottom: 5px;
}
td {
padding: 4px;
border: #4488aa 1px solid;
}
input {
text-align: right;
padding: 2px;
width: 20px;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$('td').click(function() {
var tr = $(this).parent();
for (var i = 0; i < tr.children().length; i++) {
if (tr.children().get(i) == this) {
var column = i;
break;
}
}
var tbody = tr.parent();
for (var j = 0; j < tbody.children().length; j++) {
if (tbody.children().get(j) == tr.get(0)) {
var row = j;
break;
}
}
$('span').text(row + ', ' + column);
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Table Cell Value</h1>
<table>
<tr><td>Cell 1-1</td><td>Cell 1-2</td><td>Cell 1-3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cell 2-1</td><td>Cell 2-2</td><td>Cell 2-3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cell 3-1</td><td>Cell 3-2</td><td>Cell 3-3</td></tr>
</table>
You clicked cell: <span>None</span>
</body>
</html>
Simple jQuery code snippet to remove an entire table column based on the column number. It also removes the table row heading associated with the removed column.
//remove the 1st column
$('#table').find('td,th').first().remove();
//remove the 1st column
$('table tr').find('td:eq(1),th:eq(1)').remove();
//remove the 2nd column
$('table tr').find('td:eq(1),th:eq(1)').remove();
//remove the nth column
$('table tr').find('td:eq(n),th:eq(n)').remove();
